Glutter’s Socio-Political Rants
Filchyboy http://chronotope.com introduced a link called “The Political Compass” which set your political views on a four point chart. It was fun, the questions don’t allow for complexity and also American based so take it with a grain of salt. For me, there was no surprise here. I scored 62% of the way left economically, and 74% anarchist/libertarian on the social scale. The three political figures closest to me are Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. (Although I am a big believer of Free Trade, Free Economy and Low Taxes, I do agree with a high degree in universal health care, funding for the arts, and that humanitarianism should be held as a higher ideal than profits, which explain the high left score).
Have a go. Post your score in comments if you want. Curious where the people who reads this thing stand.
Here is where Glutter Sits in the wider social context of other bloggers
Deltoid Political Compass Blog Survey.
(You will find me in the left corner, three right, two up.)
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Yan,
I scored -5.62 putting me left on the economic scale and -5.95 on the libertarian scale, leaving me just left of centre in the left/libertarian sector, close to Mandela.
Probably explains why I can’t stand John Howard (our Prime Minister in Australia) who is right wing conservative.
By the way, great site you’ve got here, i’ve been back a few times after stumbling across it recently and its always an interesting read.
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Thanks.
Yeah. He’s a prick. My parents live in Sydney and whenever I am there, I rant on in my livid ways about him and his “enlightenned” policies in the refugees, Indonesia, the fact your country won’t allow single or lesbian mothers to use sperm banks etc. etc. What’s up Australia? Everyone has to vote over there, which means no hidden lazy liberal votes and em.. that anti-immigrant, racists woman in Queensland and her party. Name skips mind at the moment… frightenning sometimes.
Yan
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Yeah the refugee thing is pretty embarrassing, although most people that I know seem to support it. I think Howard plays on people’s fears of being “invaded” or “overrun,” plus he maintains a “tough” image against those “illegal immigrants” as they are labelled in the media. Anyone who disagrees is labelled “soft”, a “bleeding heart” or a “do gooder!”
The anti immigrant, racist women is Pauline Hanson and her party is One Nation. She was imprisoned recently after being found guilty of electoral fraud. Not sure on the details, something about being misleading as to how many members her party actually had in order to be eligible for funding. She has since been released and had her conviction taken away after her appeal was successful. There is already talk of her making a political comeback, although she denies this herself, but i’m sure that there are plenty of rednecks in Queensland who would vote for her. Scary stuff.
Mike.
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Pauline Hansen, that’s right. I lived in New Zealand and while I was in college and there was a similar party called “alliance.” There ads included things like, “Are you sick of immigrants coming to take your jobs?” Stuff like that drove me out of the country, packed my bags one day and never went back. All these red necks thinking I was going to take “THEIR” jobs. That’s right I about to go work in a farm, and drive a tractor!!
The anti immigrant thing is one of the reasons I don’t want to live in Australia, my sister who attends ANU, said it was a shock for her to listen to her friends literally insult our family telling her we shouldn’t be there etc. etc. Although “She was different” type stuff. With in her first year, she said, she decided to drop the majority of her friends because of thier racists attitudes.
As for the refugees. It’s not so much having a refugee camps. It’s the human right violations they put those people through, especially ones who have legitamite political asylum concerns. I am not very well versed on it. Although I friend of mine here writes to the some of the refugees, and the fact people are willingly going on hunger strikes as a way to attempt to commit suicide says a lot about the conditions.
It’s very sad state of affairs when demanding basic human rights is a “Do gooder” or a “Bleeding Heart.” Sigh.
I find the country extremely conservative, as you said, I worked there once, as the project manager. Sent by the regional office, so I was the head of the project so to speak. And one of the project managers over there looked at me at a meeting and told me to take the notes.” I looked at him and said, “I am not a secretary and definately not yours, so no.”
It was met with a shocked silence. Because I was a woman, it was part and parcel of their attitudes.
I don’t know why. I guess it’s a very big country with very little international contact. People are very provincial for the most part. And thus anything that is different is frightenning to them i.e. people like us.
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Sorry to hear about you and your sister’s experiences in Australia. We don’t all think that way, but many do and that’s really sad. I’m 23 now but I came to Australia when I was 7 with my family from England. Ofcourse I never had to deal with racism (I’m as white as white can be! lol) but I imagine it must be horrible and frustrating for immigrants to deal with when you are just trying to do your job or uni work. It’s hard enough trying to adjust to a new country without having to deal with that crap.
Being different is a good thing!! 🙂
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No Worries. Not everyone thinks the same way ever!
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